Don't be 'chicken' when it comes to cooking a whole bird

6:45 AM,
Jun. 10, 2013

Written by

Abbey Roy
CentralOhio.com

I've always thought cooking a whole chicken is one of those tenets of frugal living I should attempt, but I never had quite got around to it. I guess that was because it seemed intimidating, I figured I wouldn't have time, and "giblets" sort of freaked me out.

But earlier this spring, for the sake of this column, I decided it was time to give it a try. I repeated my experiment this past week to be sure my success wasn't a fluke and, obviously as I'm still around to write this, I must have done something right.

Let me pause here to say that if you are squeamish and not at all curious about the process of cooking ...